Matt Cartwright

I am disappointed that the agency made this kind of mistake at such a critical time.

Mr. Meadows and I agree on a great many things here in the U.S. House of Representatives, and one of them is that we want transparency and accountability in the Government.

It is time for Speaker Boehner to do the same, bring up a clean DHS funding bill, and let's act like grownups around here.

I'm sick and tired of what may fairly be called hypocritical actions by some of my colleagues across the aisle.

Speaker Boehner really has to put an end to this showdown and agree to bring up the clean DHS funding bill to the floor as soon as it passes the Senate.

And, Mr. Chairman, I would ask unanimous consent also to enter into the record a letter dated February 22, 2015, from Brian de Vallance from the U.S.

Responses like that are just ridiculous and cannot be tolerated if we are going to believe in transparency and consistency in our oversight process.

We concluded that TIGTA produced a fundamentally flawed audit that harmed the public interest to such a severe extent that trust and confidence in TIGTA's independence, ethics, competence and quality control have been called into question.

The premise of the hearing today is getting full and efficient access to the information necessary to conduct effective oversight.

But I believe what the American public wants of us is to make the best of things, to take this law, to improve it, to make it work for everybody in the United States.

I hope that Governors in States that have so far not elected to expand Medicaid will reconsider, will consider the impact on their communities, to take advantage of this historic opportunity to lift up all of the Americans in their States.

By not participating, aren't the States that aren't leaving billions of Federal dollars on the table that could be used to improve the health of their own citizens?

It is so vital that we go back to exclusively engaging in social welfare as opposed to primarily.

I do not apologize because I call it dark money because nobody knows where it came from.

Above all, we need to protect our American democracy and protect it so that it is not stolen away from us in the dark of night.

We need to protect accountability of our government and need to protect legal responsibility.

Anonymous money in politics is something we do not need in this country and something I have repeatedly said disrupts the normal and natural democratic process and must be changed.

We must shift our focus toward establishing a more objective and transparent set of standards for evaluating 504(c)(4) applicants involved in political activities.

I believe that these repeated hearings continuing again today are not only a badgering of witnesses but an abuse of authority.

What we are doing here seems to be something entirely different.

Mr. Koskinen, if the IRS was truly trying to ensure that no email was missing, you guys did a pretty bad job.

They've missed that target regularly.

87 percent of the transactions at the Export-Import Bank involve small business.

To do away with fraud entirely, you have to change human nature, not abolish the Export-Import Bank.

I do know that 75 percent of the--the benefits of Ex-Im financing go to about ten very large corporations, and only about half of a percent of small businesses in the U.S. receive assistance from Ex-Im.